Author
Jacques Yves Cousteau
June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997 · France
Zoologist, Explorer, Filmmaker, Innovator, Photographer, Conservationist, Oceanographer, Writer, Inventor, Screenwriter, Officer of the French Navy, Marine biologist, Engineer, Biologist, Film director, World traveler, Film producer
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
39
Peak rank
#3
Biography
- Born
- June 11, 1910 · Saint-André-de-Cubzac
- Died
- June 25, 1997 · 17th arrondissement of Paris
- Nationality
- France
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- French
- Education
- École Navale, Collège Stanislas de Paris
Awards & Honours
- 1957Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- 1960Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- 1963Founder’s Medal
- 1970Howard N. Potts Medal
- 1972Commander of the Legion of Honour
- 1975BAFTA Fellowship
- 1976Sierra Club John Muir Award
- 1979honorary doctor of Harvard University
- 1979Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 1985Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
- 1985Presidential Medal of Freedom
- 1989honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 1990Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
- 1991Catalonia International Prize
- 2010National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Croix de guerre 1939–1945
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Benjamin Franklin Medal
- Officer of the Order of Maritime Merit
- Genesis Award
- Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
- honorary doctorate of the Polytechnic University of Valencia
- honorary doctor of Brandeis University
- honorary doctorate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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